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Post Office, Detroit, Mich.
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116 Published by A.C. Dietsche, Detroit, Mich,and Frankfort, Germany. Made in Germany.
20 #43
THE DETROIT POST OFFICE occupies the site from
which in 1796 frowned the bastions of old Fort Shelby.
The present great stone building was first occupied
in 1897. The United States paid $ 401,258.38 for the
site, $1,078,741.62 for the building and $ 33,000
for the furnishings.
The United States
court room on one of the upper floors is one of the
finest halls of justice in the United States.
AND CANADA,
FOREIGN,
Two CENTS.
